There he was, today, once again making the football field he stood on the the center of the world’s attention. In case twenty-first century eyes didn’t recognize the seventy-year old man who tossed the coin kicking off today’s Superbowl… Read More ›
Sports
Best Jock Prez: Jerry Ford, A Sportsman for Every Season
Clinton jogged. Ike golfed. Obama shoots hoops. Bush biked. Jerry Ford did all that and more.For Jerry Ford, being physically fit through solitary exercise and competitive sports was as natural as breathing. His athletic prowess first drew attention while he… Read More ›
The Movie Mickey Mantle & Maris Made…with Fred Mertz
One need not obsess over baseball stats to be struck by the fact that it was exactly 50 seasons ago that yesterday’s World Series winners, the San Francisco Giants had also played the World Series – but lost. In 1962,… Read More ›
Hoosier Sugar Cream Finger Pie, from the Indy 500 to the Quakers: Pies of the States
Yesterday during this last weekend in May, almost always on Memorial Day, is the traditional time for the famous Indianapolis 500 Race. What does it have in common with the Quakers? Both are quintessentially Indianian and part of the enduring… Read More ›
Football Politics: Presidents & The Super Bowl
Despite nearly fifty years of the vastly expanded focus of the entire nation on the annual Super Bowl game, none of the ten Presidents who have served since the first one, in 1967, have ever attended. For over a century… Read More ›
The Duke of Surfing Who Got the Queen Mother to Hula
Few people are frequently and fondly remembered almost fifty years after their death. Then again, few individuals so authentically embody the spirit and character of a place better than “The Father of Surfing,” Duke Kahanamoku did for Hawaii. Duke was… Read More ›
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